A Digest of
Everything Worth Knowing About Old North State Folks and Things
--Due to the failure of water pressure at the critical
moment, fire at Dunn a few days ago wiped out a considerable part of the
business section of the town, causing a loss of about $100,000 which is
partially covered by insurance.
--According to a recent census taken by the city health
officer of Goldsboro, approximately 25 per cent of the people of that city have
malaria. Plans are being made there for a vigorous anti-malaria campaign, in
the course of which a determined effort will be made to rid the city of
mosquitoes.
--General William R. Cox, one of the last ranking officers
of the Confederacy, and who was past grand master of the North Carolina Grand
Lodge of Masons, died at Richmond, Va., a few days ago. His remains were buried
at Raleigh, his former home.
--When a Seaboard train crashed into an automobile near
Wadesboro a few days ago, one of the children of Cleveland Smith, the driver of
the car, was killed instantly, and another critically injured. Smith did not
see the train in time to stop his machine.
--The Pilot Cotton Mills at Raleigh, which have been closed
for more than two months as a result of a stroke on the part of the employees,
have resumed operations following an agreement between the strikers and their
employers including a recognition of their union.
--The American Trust Company of Charlotte has absorbed the
People’s Bank and Trust Company of that city, according to a statement just
given out for publication by the banking interest concerned in the merger.
--Twenty-seven women prisoners of the State Penitentiary at
Raleigh were taken under guard to a theatrical performance in that city last
Saturday night, as an Xmas treat. It was the first time that any of the
prisoners had seen a show since being incarcerated in the prison.
--Efforts are being made to obtain a Federal appropriation
of $5,000 to $7,000 per year to equip and maintain at Camp Bragg, near
Fayetteville, a school for the children of officers and enlisted men at the
camp. The nearby county school is already completely swamped by the overflow of
children from the camp district.
--The General Education Board of New York City has agreed to
give Davidson College, Presbyterian, $100,000, provided $1 million is secured
in the big campaign now being carried on by the Presbyterians in North
Carolina.
--A Christmas present of a week’s salary was given to each
of the 1,200 persons employed at the Champton Fibre Works at Canton, near
Asheville. The payroll of the company is about $31,000 per week, and this
figure, of course, represents the cost of the gift to the concern. A Y.M.C.A.
costing $25,000 was erected by this company last summer for the use of its
employees.
--In recognition of the fact that Winston-Salem bought more
Liberty Bonds than any other city in the State, the large Government steel
freighter recently launched at Wilmington by the Emergency Fleet Corporation
was named after the Twin City. A bottle of North Carolina mineral water was
broken over the bows of the ship, instead of the champagne.
--On a recent afternoon while out gathering holly and
mistletoe, two young ladies who live near New Bern accidentally located a large
barrel, which upon close examination was discovered to be full of whiskey. It
was turned over to the United States district attorney at New Bern. No clue as
to the ownership of the fluid has been discovered.
--The sentence of Fred M. Roberts, formerly of Winston
Salem, who was given 20 years in prison by a military court in France on the
charge of desertion in the face of the enemy, has been reduced to not more than
two years by the clemency board at Washington. The case was first reviewed by
General Pershing, who reduced the original 20-year term to 10 years.
--A Christmas tree provided by the Social Services
department of the Raleigh Woman’s Club was set up on the Chapel of the State
Prison on Christmas Eve, and all those confined in the institution except the
12 who are in the death house awaiting electrocution were present at the
celebration, which included the giving of generous bags of good things to eat
to all of the prisoners. Speeches were made by Governor and Mrs. Bickett.
--After their automobile had been run into a ditch, turning
over and tearing a hole in the gasoline tank, whereby the clothing of both men
was saturated with gasoline, Berry Taylor and a negro, both of near Goldsboro,
succeeded in righting the car and getting it out of the ditch. Then, when the
motor had been started again, and they were preparing to go on, Taylor lit a
cigarette, and in some way ignited his gasoline-soaked clothing. The negro,
whose name could not be learned, went to his aid and in turn became enveloped
in flames. Both men were burned almost beyond recognition, and their lifeless
bodies were found by a second automobile party a few hours after the accident.
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